Leadership Quotes - Page 102

Greatness follows those who lead the way.

When they feel invisible, it's easy for them to leave.

Scout yourself. Have a buddy who coaches scout you.

For the first time in our history, the winners of the White House Turkey Pardon were chosen through a highly competitive online vote. And once again, Nate Silver completely nailed it. The guy is amazing.

One faction of one party, in one house of Congress, in one branch of government, doesn't get to shut down the entire government just to refight the results of an election.

Professional intellectuals are the voice of a culture and are, therefore, its leaders, its integrators and its bodyguards.

The leader is a person who has the possibility through destiny to know the people, to recognize their capacities, and to bring them to bear on the problem.

The most enthusiastic man in a cause is rarely chosen as the leader.

Leaders make things better and that requires change.

Charisma on stage is not necessarily evidence of the Holy Spirit.

On being: Arrogance is not the prerogative of the gifted.

Every learner has special needs.

We must not lose our faculty to dare, particularly in dark days.

Much of the present difficulty in industrial relations arises from the fact that too many employers as well as too many legislators take the Labor Leader more seriously than he deserves to be taken, while taking the ordinary, everyday, middle-of-the-road wage-earner less seriously than he deserves to be taken.

Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.

Without a terrific leader, you're not going to have a Great Group. But it is also true that you're not going to have a great leader without a Great Group.

It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.

The right of commanding is no longer an advantage transmitted by nature; like an inheritance, it is the fruit of labors, the price of courage.

What you are saying is true of those who want everything to give way to them, nothing to oppose them, everything to go their way, people to obey them without comment or delay and, in a manner of speaking, to be adored.

They were unwillingly to give 100 percent if they didn't personally think it was important. What you don't understand is the champions know it's all important.

At some point in life's journey, professionally and personally, we have to be able to trust our preparation.

Winston Churchill said that appetite was the most important thing about education. Leadership guru Warren Bennis says he wants to be remembered as 'curious to the end.' David Ogilvy contends that the greatest ad copywriters are marked by an insatiable curiosity 'about every subject under the sun.'

All through your life, you'll be faced with making a decision between two things-choose the one that is right. If they are both right, then choose the one that will make you feel the best about it at the end of the day.

A truly successful person knows how to overcome the past, use the present, and prepare for the future-but unless we can first surmount the past, we cannot effectively cope with either the present or the future.

The show is in the casting. Choose the right people.